Thursday, February 03, 2005

[Staging Presidential Events ...] Fargo City Commissioner Linda Coates on do-not-admit list

� IN-FORUM �: "Coates on do-not-admit list | By Mary Jo Almquist and Teri Finneman,The Forum | Published Thursday, February 03, 2005

Fargo City Commissioner Linda Coates is among more than 40 area residents included on a list of people barred from attending President Bush's speech today in Fargo.

Among the 42 area people on the do-not-admit list: two high school students, a librarian, a Democratic campaign manager and several university professors.

White House spokesman Jim Morrell and Don Larson, a spokesman for the North Dakota governor's office, say they don't know anything about such a list.

"This is the first I'm hearing of it," Morrell said when contacted Wednesday.

But two sources close to Tuesday's ticket distribution confirmed the list exists and includes a handful of names of people who were not to receive tickets to today's event at North Dakota State University's Bison Sports Arena. ....

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